Hisaya Morishige
Hisaya Morishige (森繁久彌, Morishige Hisaya, May 4, 1913 – November 10, 2009) was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He became famous in films first for comedy roles, appearing in series such as the "Company President" (Shacho) and "Station Front" (Ekimae) series, produced by Toho. He appeared in nearly 250 films, both contemporary and jidaigeki. He was also famous on stage playing Tevye in the Japanese version of Fiddler on the Roof. He also appeared in television series and specials, and was the first guest on the television talk show Tetsuko's Room in 1975. He was long-time head of the Japan Actors Union. Among many honors, Morishige received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 1991.
Princess Mononoke
as Chief of Affairs (voice)Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must...
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
as Professor Torino (voice)Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful...
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The Imperial Navy
as Naoki HongoA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
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The End of Summer
as Isomura EiichirouThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Zatoichi at Large
as Constable TobeiBlind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman,...
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47 Ronin
as Hyobu ChisakaKon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is...
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Goryokaku
as uncreditedAfter the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former...
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Last of the Wild Ones
as uncreditedA legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Tales of Ginza
as Narrator (voice)In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged...
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Port Arthur
as Hirobumi ItoDepicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified...
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Nonki saiban
as uncreditedA spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected...
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The Shop Curtain
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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The Longest Tunnel
as Gensuke KishidaAfter a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a...
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Kigeki ekimae bentô
as KintaroThird film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run...
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Surgical Designs in Flames
as uncreditedA story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as SenzoTorajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his...
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The Incident
as uncreditedThe body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...
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Tokyo Profile
as Mr. MakiA motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
as Navy Captain Prince TamehisaComedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer,...
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
as uncreditedJirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Follow the Girls
as uncreditedComedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as AkazawaFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman YoshiiLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as Denkichi YoshidaYoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is...
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Snow Country
as ImuraIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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The Yoshida School
as Shigeru YoshidaCoinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece...
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as Kutaro IwatoThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Mole Alley
as uncredited33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie,...
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The Adventures of Kantaro
as KantaroComedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
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Machi no Hi
as KuritaChiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an...
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
as uncredited7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Makeraremasen katsumadewa
as uncreditedComedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
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Flower Shop Curtain
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant...
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This Greedy Old Skin
as Hikohachi MukoyamaA kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy...
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The President's Boss
as Zennosuke TashiroA new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former...
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Marital Relations
as RyukichiThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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喜劇 駅前飯店
as TokuThe fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
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Travels of Lord Mito
as Kômon MitoIn the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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Theater Of Life
as uncreditedCentred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the...
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Kukai
as uncreditedThe life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of...
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A Country Boss
as Takeo AiharaA country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
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The Wayside Pebble
as Shogo AikawaIn Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic...
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The Maid Story
as uncreditedNine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as ShozoShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
as uncreditedJirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Chutaro of Banba
as uncreditedBased on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major...
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The Angry Sea
as HikoichiA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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Sayonara Jupiter
as Earth Federation PresidentIn the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the...
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Shinibana
as Rokusaburō AokiAfter the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
as Jihei IkunoA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with...
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An Urban Affair
as Kintaro ToguraFollow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the...
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The Tale of the White Serpent
as Xu-Xian / Fa-Hai / Panda / Dragon King / Catfish KingAs a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake...
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The Tale of the White Serpent
as Narrator (voice)As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake...
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as Keitaro AsakawaThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Jirocho, the Hunted
as uncreditedA wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on...
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Morishige, where are you going?
as Shigetaro MoriA man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter...
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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
as Morita Tokunosuke#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie...
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
as KanazawaComedy centered on a stripper agency
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Aces Wild
as uncreditedKeisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an...
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The President Talks Bank
as Zennosuke TashiroThe president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing...
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Life of a Country Doctor
as uncreditedA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...
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Sea of Wandering
as uncreditedSet in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who...
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The Twilight Years
as Shigezo TachibanaA woman looks after her father in law.
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Morishige no demakase shinshi
as uncreditedScammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
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Koi no rantō
as uncredited"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
as KanazawaAkane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable...
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Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
as Shigemori ShigeoMovie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
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Two Iida
as Riichiro SugawaBased on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The...
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Tabaruzaka
as uncreditedKnown as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a...
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The Naked Executive
as Kôshirô HidakaThe executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work",...
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The White Tiger Battalion
as uncreditedThe Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize...
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Sekigahara
as Ieyasu TokugawaBlockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the...
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Byakkotai
as Inoue OkazumiByakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its...
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